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1st Stakes-Winner For US Freshman The Way Home

Tuesday, 28th June 2011

US freshman stallion The Way Home (Giant’s Causeway-Homewrecker, by Buckaroo) recorded his 1st stakes-winner (plus the runner-up) when gelded son My Homey (The Way Home-Spectacular Place, by Out Of Place) scored by a neck in the US$136,000 Listed Mountain Top New Mexico Bred Thoroughbred Futurity (5 furlongs) for 2YOs at Ruidoso Downs. My Homey (ridden by Jorge Martin Bourdieu for trainer Hermenegildo Aldavaz) defeated the filly Gerda's Home (The Way Home-Gerda, by Jade Hunter) & colt Band Of Glory (Minister Eric-Dixieland Dancer, by Dixieland Band). My Homey took his record to 3 wins & a placing from 5 starts for US$90,491 earnings. His sire The Way Home stands at Doubletree Farm in New Mexico for US$2,500.